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Brazil Joins the Alternative App Store Era With a 5% Fee

Cupertino's compromise with CADE offers developers a gentler tax than the App Store - but Notarization and approval gates remain firmly in place

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jun 22, 2026·6 min read
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The Thousand-Clip Deception Behind Polymarket's Viral Bet Videos

An investigation has uncovered more than 1,100 staged social-media clips showing fake wagers and fabricated wins, raising questions about pl

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Signal President Challenges Chatbot Personification as Privacy Risks Deepen

As conversational AI spreads from document formatting to household shopping, Meredith Whittaker warns users that convenience features mask s

Priya Nair ·   · 8m
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How a Guardrail Bypass Turned Into an Export Control Fight

The Trump administration's order forcing Anthropic offline has less to do with unique security risks than with leverage, relationships, and

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Britain's Facial Age-Estimation Plan Faces Coalition Pushback Over Accuracy and Bias

Sixty-two civil society organizations challenge the Home Office's 2027 rollout of AI screening for asylum-seeking minors, citing ethnic perf

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
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When Data Sovereignty Trumps the Cloud: RIPE's €5 Million Pivot

Europe's internet registry is reversing years of cloud migration after geopolitical risk forced a rethink - and now faces the bill for aging

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
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Norway Bans Elementary Pupils from Using Generative AI in Class

Oslo's new policy reflects mounting anxiety across democracies about whether large language models short-circuit foundational learning - and

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 7m
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Britain Taps 40 Million LinkedIn Profiles to Map Skills Gaps and Career Flows

The Department for Work and Pensions will lean on Microsoft-owned platform data to track workforce movements and hiring mismatches, signalin

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Credential Harvesting at Fortinet Scale: 75,000 Devices, 194 Countries, and the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Name

A 1.16 billion-attempt brute-force campaign against enterprise firewalls exposes the brittleness of perimeter security - and the credential

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 9m
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iOS Browser Performance Lags by 29 Percent Under WebKit Mandate

Microsoft research shows alternative rendering engines could deliver substantially faster mobile web experiences, yet Apple's compliance fra

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
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The Pentagon Is Letting AI Draft Congressional Reports

US defense officials tout GenAI.mil as a way to slash hundreds of staffing hours on mandated compliance work, raising fresh questions about

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Unknown Actors Target Fortinet Sandbox, Three Critical Flaws Exploited in the Wild

At DailyTechWire, we've tracked a weekend surge in attacks against FortiSandbox deployments - all three bugs rated 9.1 on CVSS, all initiall

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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When 2.28 Million Test Scores Vanish: India's Telegram Ban and the Exam Scandal Behind It

A week-long messaging blackout affects 84 million users as authorities scramble to salvage a medical entrance exam marred by leaks, grading

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
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Sovereign Storage Scales, but Office Habits Prove Stubborn in France's Digital Independence Drive

The French Ministry of Education has onboarded 400,000 accounts to open-source infrastructure, yet users still reach for Microsoft's desktop

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 8m
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Britain Draws a Hard Line on Teen Access to Social Platforms

Westminster is moving to ban under-16s from TikTok, Instagram and most major apps, aiming for spring 2027 enforcement - and the regulatory m

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 9m
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The £330 Million Question Hanging Over Palantir's NHS Contract

As a February break clause looms, the UK government's review of the American software giant's role in managing England's health data has rei

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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Why Britain's Treasury CTO Search Signals a Wider Public-Sector Tech Talent Crisis

A £77,000 salary cap for one of Whitehall's most demanding technology roles underscores the structural challenge governments face when compe

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
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A Munich Court Holds Google Liable for AI Overview Errors

A German ruling finds the search giant strictly responsible for false statements generated by its own AI, setting a precedent that could res

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 9m
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When Washington Pulls the Plug: The Anthropic Cutoff and the New AI Sovereignty Scramble

A sudden US export order blocking access to two cybersecurity models has accelerated Europe's push to build its own AI stack - and exposed t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Amazon Tipped Off Treasury on Anthropic Model Risks Before Export Ban

Internal security research by Amazon's team appears to have triggered a cascade that led to the withdrawal of two frontier AI models from gl

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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State Regulators Circle OpenAI on Data Handling and Minors Protection

A multi-state probe served Friday tests the gap between OpenAI's safety rhetoric and the reality of product deployment at scale, as the comp

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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State Attorneys General Open Multi-State Probe Into OpenAI User Practices

A coalition led by New York is demanding records on advertising, data handling, and protections for minors and seniors—the latest regulatory

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Anthropic's Forced Shutdown of Two Flagship Models

A Friday-night directive cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally—without written evidence, raising new questions about AI governance and the b

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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The Global Race to Lock Minors Out of Social Media Platforms

From Canberra to Athens, governments are legislating age gates — but enforcement remains the trillion-dollar question no one has solved.

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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180 Million Wrong Answers a Month: Why a German Court Just Held Google Responsible

A German ruling treats AI-generated summaries as original content, piercing the liability shield that has protected search engines for two d

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m